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TIL that the majority of the time, the “Catfish” is the one who initially contacts the hit TV show MTVs Catfish

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BrnGr TIL Irish Actor Stephen Rea, who played an IRA soldier in The Crying Game (1992), was married for 17 years to convicted IRA bomber Dolours Price
rNa61 TIL learned that “Nitro Cold Brew” is just Cold Brew coffee infused with nitrogen gas, and the name has nothing to do with the amount of Caffeine the coffee contains.
Vndm TIL in 1988, Cuba was the only non-African nation to lend military support to anti-apartheid forces in South Africa that led to the successful defeat of US-backed mercenaries, and is an “example of principled anti-imperialist internationalism in the last decades of the twentieth century.”
LQlxv TIL Rickey Henderson stole 66 bases at age 39.
a8JvM TIL: the US has a law called the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) to combat bureaucracy. PRA approvals take 6-9 months